One of the great thing about Office software is, no matter how much you know about it, you can almost always find a feature you never knew existed. I am using OpenOffice.org for a very long time now (more than couple of years), though as my usage for office applications is quite low, I can [...]
My favourite web analytics software Piwik just got desktop integration.
For those who haven’t heard of Piwik before, it’s open source web analytics software which you can host on your own server. It is still in beta, but I am using it for few months now and haven’t faced any problem. You can try it out [...]
Yesterday I found out about new Adobe AIR Twitter client, TweetDeck, finally an application that makes it possible to cope up with information overload on twitter.
TweetDeck has multi-column view, it’s first column display all latest tweets (like “home” on twitter.com). Other columns can contain replies, direct messages, groups (tweets from selected people), searches and latest [...]
Since I have switched completely to linux, I am always on the look out for native linux games. A genre that is very easily available on linux is First Person Shooters. There are many good quality multiplayer FPS games available on linux, most of these are based on Quake 3 engine, resulting in very good [...]
Update 2008-09-26: Fixed the link to madwifi package.
In my previous post about Sony Vaio’s hardware compatibility with Linux, I linked to ubuntuforums for a howto of installing Atheros AR5007EG wireless driver. Apparently it is not available any longer, so, I am posting the steps that worked for me.
Note: This howto is for 32bit systems, for [...]
Let’s continue where I left my previous post on Linux file system, with information on different file systems commonly present in most distributions and small comparison between them.
ext2:
ext2 (or second extended file system) is the oldest file system for Linux still in use, and until recently one of the most famous. It was created to [...]
File system is a system to store and access the files (and directories) on any computer. Usually users don’t have to worry about which file system they are using, operating systems take care of it all. Though knowing their strength and weaknesses can sometimes help one to choose better option depending on the scenario.
There are [...]
Due to some personal problems, I had to swap my notebook (Sony VAIO) with my brother’s (Acer Aspire 5720, also known as TravelMate 5720), for a month. So, like any honorable linux geek, I didn’t waste any time and installed linux - Ubuntu 8.04 - on it.
Hardware:
VGA: Intel X3100
Audio: Intel 82801H HDA (ICH8 Family), builtin [...]
I recently did a fresh install of Kubuntu 8.04 (hardy) on my Sony Vaio (VGN-NR220E), this is a list of notebook hardware that does or doesn’t work with linux. It is mostly based on my experience with kubuntu 8.04, but it should be pretty much same with other distributions, using latest kernel.
First of all, a [...]
Today, while browsing the LinuxMint forums, I found a link to a nice article Linux is Not Windows.
It is aimed at Windows users coming to Linux, and would help them set their expectations. If you have never understood why people like Linux so much, or had trouble explaining why you like it, then go ahead [...]
